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<h1>Users and groups<a class="headerlink" href="#users-and-groups" title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
<section id="pg0901">
<span id="user-and-group-account-policy"></span><span id="index-1"></span><span id="index-0"></span><h2>User and group account policy<a class="headerlink" href="#pg0901" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
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<dt class="field-odd">PG<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><p>0901</p>
</dd>
<dt class="field-even">Source<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="field-even"><p>QA</p>
</dd>
<dt class="field-odd">Reference<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><p><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/702460">https://bugs.gentoo.org/702460</a></p>
</dd>
<dt class="field-even">Reported<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="field-even"><p>by repoman and pkgcheck (as deprecated eclass)</p>
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<p>All new user/group accounts must be created via <a class="reference external" href="https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0081.html">GLEP 81</a> packages.
The existing packages should be migrated on the next version bump or
major update.</p>
<p>Existing and historical fixed UIDs/GIDs in range 0..499 (used
in baselayout or via user.eclass) as listed in uid-gid.txt can be reused
as-is in acct-* packages.</p>
<p>UIDs and GIDs in range 0..100 are reserved for important system
accounts.  New assignments in that range need to be explicitly approved
by the QA lead, in response to a justified request from the developer.</p>
<p>The range 101..749 is provided for regular use by packages.
The assignments from this range follow the following rules:</p>
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<li><p>A developer can select an arbitrary free UID/GID from this range.
If in doubt, it is recommended to select successive numbers from 101
upwards.</p></li>
<li><p>Unless there is a very good reason not to, matching users and groups
should use the same number.  It is acceptable to leave gaps
in assignments as a result of that.</p></li>
<li><p>Before pushing the new acct-* packages, the developer must push
an update to uid-gid.txt adding the ‘acct’ entry for the desired
UID/GID.  This serves as a synchronization primitive to prevent
collisions.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Further UID/GID ranges will be open in the future as the need arises.</p>
<p><em>Rationale</em>: this is the second version of the policy for GLEP 81
packages.  It simplifies the process to aid rapid adoption of the new
system.  Review requirement and pointless cross-distro syncing were
removed, in favor of a simple process of allocating the next free number
and using it.</p>
<p>The ranges have been chosen to delay the imminent collision between
explicitly reserved UIDs / GIDs and the ones allocated dynamically by
user.eclass (starting from 999 downwards).  The lowest GID range has
been reserved for true system users and groups.</p>
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